Recently a friend of mine showed this video to me. It is a sad thing, but at the same time shows (I believe - including me) "how and what" many of us Christians believe about sin. The video talks about how this kid stole his grandmother's SUV because he was mad at her. We get so mad at God at times and "get back" at him by doing something that we shouldn't, or at times just out of flat rebellion we sin. The boy in the video said that "it was fun to do bad things." We all know how sin can be fun for a season but someone can really get hurt - mostly we hurt ourselves. The sad thing is that he was asked what kind of punishment he should get and he replied "maybe a weekend without video games." WOW a whole weekend. Yet this is what we want life to be like many times. We want to get off easy or have no punishment at all. I believe God is gracious to us at times but he also says, "Pride comes before the fall."



This is the times that we live in. We watch evil everyday and wonder why God doesn't step in and put a stop to it. We see murder on the news, violence on TV, Pornography is too easy to access, Spouse and Child abuse. We see and ask questions just like Habakkuk. "Why do you make me look at evil and injustice? Why don't you do something? The real questions is do we really want Him to. He may just use the same kind of tact that he did with Israel. Would be ready for something like this?

I have been out of the loop for a little while and want to start getting back to this study, but I thought this might be something to discuss in the meantime. To be honest, it has been easy to get out of my study habits and this is what happened this time. Now I need to get back to the questions at hand. Why is Habakkuk important to our day and time - one answer is, "I think we are living in perilous times and we wonder why God doesn't seem to do anything about it." He will! We just don't know what and how he will deal with it.